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Fight To Survive · Azyrius

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDILB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fight To Survive on drums

124 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-22, silence through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-79, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-45 and 64-79 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--x---x---xx--|
Fight To Survive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 29, 53 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-45 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-96 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-116 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fight To Survive?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fight To Survive hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fight To Survive?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 29, 53 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED